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Thursday, November 6, 2014

More About The Future

Yesterday, Roxanne Rustand posted a blog about looking to
the future and enjoying life without hanging on to things that don’t matter
that much.She wrote about priorities
and creating a bucket list for the future.I spent the day thinking about this as I took care of accummulated mail,
did chores around the house, and unpacked from a trip to Portland, Oregon where
I attended my youngest son’s wedding.He
married a girl he’d been crazy about in high school, but they lost touch, she
married someone else, had three children, got divorced, and experienced many
rough times.When she and my son
reconnected last year, it was as if time had come full circle and they picked
up where they’d left off, with the addition of her children who are smart,
well-behaved, and fun – the youngest one, aged four, demonstrated a remarkable
ability to gargle apple juice during a wedding ceremony.Their story is like one of my romance novels
coming to life and I want to write more stories like theirs.

I want to make happy memories with them and with my other
grandchildren and though I live far away from all of them, I will visit
often.Money I earn from writing will go
for these trips.One of my goals is to
clear out things I no longer need.The
more I have, the more I have to take care of and that takes time away from my
family.I want my children’s and
grandchildren’s memories of me to be happy ones, of things we did and trips we
took together.

Writing a bucket list will be a priority, too.There are so many things to do and loved ones
to do them with.